Otters are well loved for a variety of reasons, including their adorable personalities and affinity for holding hands. But ...

Otters are carnivores, so their diets primarily consist of meat. What type of meat depends on what's available. Most otters will eat crustaceans and fish, according to the Blue Reef Aquarium .

Otters are carnivores, which means they eat meat. Sea otters eat a wide range of marine animals, including mussels, clams, urchins, abalone, crabs, snails and about 40 other marine species ...

So are Asian otters. And spotted hyenas. Sea lions and dolphins too. In fact, Peihua Jiang from the University of Zurich has found that a wide variety of meat-eating animals can’t taste sugars.

A recent study found sea otters are eating thousands of green crabs at a California reserve, reducing the invasive species’ population.

Sea otters eat constantly and one of their favorite snacks is the striped shore crab. These crabs dig burrows and also nibble away roots of the marsh grass pickleweed that holds dirt in place.

Some otters rely on tools to bust open hard-shelled prey items like snails, and a new study suggests this tool use is helping them to survive as their favorite, easier-to-eat foods disappear.

Left unchecked, the crabs turn the marsh banks “into Swiss cheese,” which can collapse when big waves or storms hit, said Brent Hughes, a Sonoma State University marine ecologist and co-author of the ...

Hungry Sea Otters Are Taking a Bite Out of California’s Invasive Crab Problem, New Study Finds Researchers estimate southern sea otters eat up to 120,000 European green crabs per year at the ...